The Party for a Rule of Law Offensive,Rule of Law State Offensive Party,Party for the Promotion of the Rule of Law,Law and Order Offensive Party,or Party of Law and Order Offensive,commonly known as the "Schill party" from 2000 to 2003,was a minor right-wing populist party in Germany,mainly active in the state of Hamburg,that ran on a platform of law and order. It was founded in July 2000 by the judge Ronald Schill and was temporarily very successful in Hamburg,winning 19.4% of the votes in the 2001 state election and joining a coalition government. After the centre-right coalition collapsed and Schill left the party in 2003,it quickly lost support. Attempts to expand to other states or the federal level were unsuccessful. It may therefore be considered a "flash party" or protest party.
Wolfgang Schäuble was a German politician whose political career spanned more than five decades. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),he was the longest-serving member of any democratic German parliament. Schäuble served as the 13th president of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005,a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016,and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.
Peter Harry Carstensen is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2005 to 2012 he was Minister President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein,serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2005/06.
Niels Annen is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He served as Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office from 2018 to 2021 in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Oliver Wittke is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Christoph Ahlhaus is a German politician. He is a representative of the German Christian Democratic Union which he joined in 1985. He was the mayor of Hamburg from August 2010 to March 2011.
Ralf Stegner is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Pinneberg since the 2021 elections.
Reinhold Hilbers is a German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony since March 2003. From 2017 to 2022,served as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President Stephan Weil.
Thomas Nord is a German politician and Member of the German Federal Parliament.
Rüdiger Kruse is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2021.
Marco Wanderwitz is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2018 until 2021,he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Peter Tschentscher is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 28 March 2018 he has been the First Mayor of Hamburg. As First Mayor,he is head of the current government of the city-state. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament. From 2011 until 2018 he served as State Minister of Finance in the first and second governments of Olaf Scholz.
Norbert Brackmann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2021,representing as a directly elected member the constituency of Duchy of Lauenburg - Stormarn-South.
Ralph Brinkhaus is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as parliamentary leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag from 2018 to 2022.
Christoph Ploß is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.
Sebastian Czaja is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as parliamentary leader of the FDP in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2016 to 2023,and was lead candidate for the party in the 2016,2021 and 2023 state elections.
Dennis Thering is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament. He has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since 2011 and has been chairman of the parliamentary opposition since the 2020 elections. In April 2023,he became chairman of the CDU Hamburg.
The CDU Hamburg is the regional state association of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in Hamburg,Germany. As of 2019,there are about 6,474 members in the association,about 40 percent are women. In 1946,from 1953 to 1957 and from 2001 to 2011,the party appointed the First Mayor of Hamburg. The CDU Hamburg has been part of the opposition since 2011. Seven district associations and 47 local associations form the basis for the political commitment of the CDU Hamburg.
The SPD Hamburg, officially "SPD State Organisation Hamburg",is the state organisation of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Hamburg and is the state association with the largest membership of any party in the city state.
